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New Delhi, Nov. 25 -- In Dear Zindagi, Shah Rukh Khan plays Jehangir Khan ("Call me Jug"), a Goan psychiatrist who helps the mildly disaffected Kaira (Alia Bhatt) with her problems. His analysis is a bit fortune cookie-ish ("Don't let the past blackmail your present to ruin a beautiful future"), but does that really matter? If there's one thing we ought to be able to agree upon, it's that none of us would mind Khan as our analyst. Who wouldn't want her story listened to with that famous Shah Rukh concentration, her worries alleviated by that self-deprecating chuckle?
One of the heartening things about Gauri Shinde's film-her second after the well-received English Vinglish in 2012-is its insistence that seeing a shrink isn't something out of the ordinary. Kaira isn't seeking help because she's depressed or is hearing voices-she's just having trouble sleeping. Over Skype, she tells her worried house help to think of Jug as a dimaag ka doctor, one you can tell your problems to. In a more heated moment, she asks her family why...